Dry Gulch, USA, owned by Church on the Move of Tulsa, was established as a summer camp for children in 1986. The campus has grown into a multi-purpose destination point featuring a 700-seat performance hall, a mini-amusement park, overnight quarters, holiday events and a 'Town Square' downtown area that is a replica of an old west town.
Stephen Arruda, AV coordinator for Dry Gulch, was hired last year to upgrade technology throughout the campus, including an audio system that had fallen into disrepair. Since then he has established a multi-zone distributed audio system featuring a large number of Technomad Berlin and Vernal loudspeakers at various points around the campus, including large building rooftops, underneath building eves, and along the main entrance.
"There is a philosophy here to not use equipment that needs constant repair work, and the weather here is so extreme that the older speakers deteriorated to a point where they were unusable," said Arruda. "We're spread very thin, and it's a waste of time to drive around the ground repairing equipment every day, continually replacing drivers and performing maintenance. The Technomad loudspeakers are designed to handle condensation and extreme weather better than any other speaker I have seen. And the audio quality we get out of them is simply amazing. There is no tradeoff whatsoever."
(Jim Evans)
